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A Grand Touring Instrument

As is their wont, Volkswagen has once again resurrected an old performance favorite here in the US by unleashing the GTI (or as I like to say in speedtalk, JeetyEye) upon a segment of the population that longs for some serious scoot in their practical, affordable hatchback. It's based on the new Golf platform, which as I said earlier (right below this, in fact) is bloody brilliant inside, outside and underneath. Instead of that wicked good Inline 5-cylinder, though the Jeety has a 200-horsepower 4-cylinder Turbo (or Tubbo, to those of you still residing Texas and did not flee the heat, as I did). My test beast also has the wild Direct Shift Gearbox (DSG), which is a clutchless manual that is therefore an automatic, and is a tranny I've sampled in VWs and Audis for a while and still am not simpatico with. That could be just me, though. More Testing!

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